Potential Degree Input, Please

[Jonathan Whatley]

I intend to open a dance studio and am currently building my coaching business while I attend college.

Western Michigan University lists an online Certificate in Dance Studio Management.

Do you hold or are you pursuing a coaching certification? If you seek a degree at a school that has a portfolio assessment or prior learning assessment process that isn't expensive or time-consuming (e.g., possibly UMPI), that might be worth some credit. Alternatively, if you're shopping for coaching courses in the future you might look for something offered by a college or university and with academic credit attached. Might meet two goals at once.

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Also: If a master's degree could be part of your future, check out the University of Utah Master of Business Creation (MBC) I posted about the other day.

It's designed as a combination entrepreneurship degree and business incubator where each student is a founder launching a business while a student.

Although they post that that "many personal-service businesses, including restaurants and retail shops" are poor fits for the program, check out the very first Founder Testimonial on their main page:

“I have changed and grown immensely through the program and their continued support and guidance, and I think I’ve also grown a lot in my confidence.”

— Alyssa Bertelsen, founder of Rise Up School of Dance, MBC graduate